The only thing I had in the back of mind when I went to unlock was all the people on the NCIX forums requesting RMA for their 465GTX's that Linus flashed to 470's.

lol I was thinking the same...I'm sure Linus won't get involved in that sort of stuff anymore...it was interesting, and sponsored by MSI, but in the end, it was a comedy to see the cards falling in battle one by one.

I'm really interested into the HD69** in crossfire....but if I want 6970's I'll wait for the price to drop...it will I'm pretty sure....AMD/ATI is not on top this time, and I don't think there will be a shortage of 6970, like back in the 5870 days...

I unlocked the shaders on my XFX 6950 (modded 6950 BIOS) and have it overclocked at the 6970 speeds and haven't had any issues so far and I've been running like this for a few weeks.
The card did artifact when using the 6970 BIOS, which is why I went through the modded 6950 BIOS route only. I've done unigine tests, furmark stress testing and gaming without any issues so far...

I unlocked the shaders on my XFX 6950 (modded 6950 BIOS) and have it overclocked at the 6970 speeds and haven't had any issues so far and I've been running like this for a few weeks.
The card did artifact when using the 6970 BIOS, which is why I went through the modded 6950 BIOS route only. I've done unigine tests, furmark stress testing and gaming without any issues so far...

Anyone able to flash their cards in crossfire? I tried using ATIWinFlash from a command prompt but both cards show 1408 shaders. Before I installed my second card I unlocked the HIS 6950 with a modded 6950 bios and GPU-Z was reporting the shader unlock. Since adding in my second card GPU-z won't show the unlocked shaders. Just wonder if there is a best way to flash both cards for crossfire.